"Brilliant!" "Awesome!" "Amazing!" "Genius!"

That was how the man in the video on the URL below was described in four separate posts on the thread where the URL was posted.

http://tinyurl.com/jn8e4

I am not saying that he is not talented. I am certainly not saying that being a juggler and entertaining people is not a worthy profession. I think that those who make people happy contribute a great deal to society.

But is this genius? Should this be what inspires people's awe? Can this man's ability in his field be compared to that of Hypatia, Mozart, van Gogh, Dostoevsky, Pierre and Marie Curie and Gustav Landauer in theirs?

Why is it that people of ordinary intelligence become downright rapturous upon seeing a demonstration like the one in the video, while intellectual brilliance leaves them coldly indifferent at best, belligerent at worst?

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel
DoreenDotan@gmail.com